"A letter to the Rev. Mr. Potter", which in turn occasioned "An appendix to the sermon on the pretended inspiration of the Methodists. Occasioned by Mr. Cayley's letter. By the reverend Mr. Potter". "A sermon preached before the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Norwich, and the corporation, in the cathedral, on Friday, April 19, 1793" attacked Thomas Paine's Rights of Man. The third was A sermon for the first day of June 1802, being the day appointed for a general thanksgiving for peace. Political pamphlets In 1768 Potter wrote "A letter to John Buxton, of Shadwell, Esq; on the contests relative to the ensuing election for the county of Norfolk", and in 1775 Observations on the poor laws, on the present state of the poor, and on House of Industry, criticising the cruel treatment of the rural poor. Translations Potter is best remembered for his annotated English translations of Greek tragedies in blank verse. He completed the plays of Æschylus (1777), Euripides (1781–1783) and Sophocles in (1788). that remained in print throughout the 19th century. Of the three, the Aeschylus was best known and went through seven editions up to 1892. Likewise his Euripides went through six editions up to 1906; the Sophocles was reprinted in 1808 and 1880. Potter's scheme of using blank verse for Greek hexameters and rhymed verse for the choruses was widely adopted by translators. In 1779 Potter collaborated with the politician Hans Stanley to correct and annotate Stanley's translation of Pindar's Odes. The task was completed but never published due to Stanley's suicide in January 1780. Literary criticism After completing his Euripides, Potter set about an essay on lyric poetry using some notes prepared for the translation of Pindar, but incorporating a defence of the work of Thomas Gray after recent criticisms of it by Samuel Johnson in his Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets. Elizabeth Montagu persuaded him to convert the project into An inquiry into some passages in Dr. Johnson's Lives of the poets: particularly his observations on lyric poetry, and the odes of Gray. In 1789, after Johnson's death, Potter published The art of criticism; as exemplified in Dr. Johnson's lives of the most eminent English poets. Assessment The antiquary Craven Ord found Potter "narrow in his circumstances with a disagreeable wife... rather an entertaining and well-behaved gentleman, with some singularities of thinking." A letter from Sarah Burney to her sister